I spent my last day in Los Angeles preparing for my train trip tomorrow. I visited Los Angeles Union station to pick up my Amtrak ticket. Union Station must be one of the most beautiful stations I have ever seen, it is really classic and in beautiful art deco style.
I hope all goes well and that I make it on the train in time tomorrow, the Coast
Starlight train leaves at 10am (and there is only one of these trains a day) and will deliver me in San Francisco about 11 hours later.
There are some photos (not too interesting, as I haven’t done that much new today but expect Union station and Santa Monica beach) on either Picasa here or if you’d rather have them on Facebook, here they are.
Did I like LA? Well yes and no. I love the beaches, and I quite liked Santa Monica, which I have returned to every afternoon. I think Venice Beach is a bit trashy and messy but generally the beaches are fantastic, and on a lot of places they are very empty. The weather has been fantastic too which was great. It was fun to see Hollywood boulevard, but I am not too big a fan of Downtown LA. Maybe I haven’t found the right streets, but it seemed without atmosphere.
I will miss my afternoons in Santa Monica (I have been a real tourist and even bought a Santa Monica zip hoody sweater, I know, I’ll control myself better next time), but I am sure that San Francisco will have beaches too. I can’t wait to see what things look like over there.
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Thank you again for the wonderfull pictures.
It`s so nice to follow you this way through your exiting holiday.
Have a good travel to San Francisco and I hope you also have a good time over there,
especialy on your Wale trip. I wish you an exiting week over there. ;-)
That station is stunning! I really want to get my passport and join you! (Oops there’s that little thing called money!)
Looking forward to the next instalment
See you soon! (I love your beach photos — that’s really the thing I love most about LA.)
Love the sunset pictures – warming on a cold, wet UK day..
Just Luverley!! – I’m totally jealous – have a great trip!
I recommend lunch or dinner at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Fran
Thanks to you LA finally became an actual place to visit for me instead of just a movieset background.
I totally love that empty beach photo at 5pm.
And the Baywatchpictures look as if you can hear the opening theme starting any minute ;o)